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The clinical course of VICC is well described; however, reports about its detailed effects in the hemocoagulation systems of patients are sparse. In this pilot study, we prospectively analyzed the changes in plasma fibrinogen that were caused by the envenomation of six patients by five non-European Viperidae snakes. Western blot analysis was employed and fibrinogen fragments were visualized with the use of specific anti-human fibrinogen antibodies. All of the studied subjects experienced hypo- or afibrinogenemia. The western blot analysis demonstrated fibrinogenolysis of the fibrinogen chains in all of the cases. Fibrinogenolysis was considered to be a predominant cause of defibrination in Crotalus, Echis, and Macrovipera envenomation; while, in the cases of VICC that were caused by Atheris and Calloselasma envenomation, the splitting of the fibrinogen chains was present less significantly.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/toxins14080538","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,10]],"date-time":"2022-08-10T09:47:06Z","timestamp":1660124826000},"page":"538","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Fibrinogenolysis in Venom-Induced Consumption Coagulopathy after Viperidae Snakebites: A Pilot Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Jiri","family":"Valenta","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Medicine, Toxinology Center, First Medical Faculty, Charles University, General University Hospital, U Nemocnice 499\/2, 128 08 Prague, Czech Republic"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3098-0508","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alzbeta","family":"Hlavackova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, U Nemocnice 2094\/1, 128 00 Prague, Czech Republic"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zdenek","family":"Stach","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Medicine, Toxinology Center, First Medical Faculty, Charles University, General University Hospital, U Nemocnice 499\/2, 128 08 Prague, Czech Republic"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5964-0526","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jana","family":"Stikarova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, U Nemocnice 2094\/1, 128 00 Prague, Czech Republic"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Marek","family":"Havlicek","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, U Nemocnice 2094\/1, 128 00 Prague, Czech Republic"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8119-5927","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pavel","family":"Michalek","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Medicine, Toxinology Center, First Medical Faculty, Charles University, General University Hospital, U Nemocnice 499\/2, 128 08 Prague, Czech Republic"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"951","DOI":"10.1016\/j.toxicon.2005.02.030","article-title":"Snake venom and coagulopathy","volume":"45","author":"White","year":"2005","journal-title":"Toxicon"},{"key":"ref_2","first-page":"133","article-title":"Cerebrovascular accident and snake envenomation: A scoping study","volume":"4","author":"Mohamadpour","year":"2019","journal-title":"Int. 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